Images will be on display from Thursday Aug 4th to Sunday, Aug 7th. Reception is on Saturday, Aug 6th from 3PM to 7PM - with live Art from Votan and Native American drumming. See you there! #TheseDays #RealNDNZ #BlackandWhitePhotography #LosAngeles #ClassicHollywood

#TBT - Recently helped a student in the UK understand about Natives in film & television (from a native prospective) and the work that we are doing in Los Angeles. This blog I wrote over a year ago, peaked his interest in the topic.

"For so long, the history of Indians in film has been seen with a one-dimensional lens, one that has created damaging and negative stereotypes still haunting us today. Native actors also have a long history of regularly being scrubbed out of rol...es and replaced with painted ‘red-face’ white actors, and in some cases are not even considered for roles because they don’t follow the fantasy attributes Hollywood has been so accustomed to – the dark skin and black long hair.

Knowing the long history of Natives in film and television and the social impact it creates is something I want to affect directly. I decided to focus on producing positive narrative portrayals of American Indians as real people engaged in real life." #RealNDNZ

Originally published on Just Add Color Hollywood’s still growing in its discussions about diversity in entertainment, and one area the industry is lacking is multifaceted, unique, and contemporary portrayals of Native Americans. Indigenous multimedia documentarian Pamela Peters is aiming to push t...

Filmmaker Pamela J. Peters has a message from Indian Country that she wants to share with the rest of the world: Despite centuries of discrimination and oppression — including murder, rape, forced relocation and cultural assimilation — “We are still here.”

This is pretty cool from Culture Strikes about our project #RealNDNZRetakeHollywood - thank you! "Have you ever seen a real Indian? There is perhaps no stereotypical trope in American popular culture, and especially in Hollywood, where most of our shared cultural images come from, quite like Cowboys and Indians--from the days of Buffalo Bill vaudeville act to all the embarrassing permutations of kitschy warpaint and feathers reglia from every Western classic thereafter: natives have for centuries served as the ultimate Other--the backdrop of the noble savage or historical vestige against which American nationalism and identity is defined and sharpened. " #CultureStrike#LosAngeles#RealNDNZ#ClassicHollywoodhttp://www.culturestrike.org/maga…/showing-natives-new-light